Episode #124 ... Simulacra and Simulation

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Today we talk about Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five. How war stories can distort the reality of war, how trauma can fracture our experience of time and identity, and why Billy Pilgrim becomes attracted to the strange philosophy of the Tralfamadorians. Hope you love it. : ...  Show more

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In this episode I present the core ideas from Jean Baudrillard's first book, The System of Objects. Clearly influenced by his supervisor, Henri Lefebvre, Baudrillard explores what mass consumption of objects says about us and our society. Link to Patreon (For those whom can affor ...  Show more

Though we've been busy working through the ongoing reading group with Matthew Flisfeder on Žižek's For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor we managed to get together to do an episode on enjoyment and prohibition as it is developed in FTKNWTD. Peter talks s ...  Show more